nathaniel raymond is the executive director of the amount of saturn research lab at the yale school of public health. his team closely monitored is what's happening and so down out in medford, massachusetts, alex depa is executive director of the world. peace foundation is recognized as one of the full most experts on the whole of africa. great to have you all on the program and we want to stop by discussing, if you can lay out for the current situation now on the ground. and then we'll look at the diplomatic challenges there are trying to find a resolution to the fighting ensued. um, so nathaniel, i'll start with you in north da, full of particularly the fighting between the rapids support support forces. i'm assuming these armed forces has been particularly brutal, and you'll see a monetary research lab report is documented at one stage in the whole, more than 50 must casualty events on us and the types of research 6 hours. can you explain to us how serious that is? what that means? right now, there is a page battle between the rabbit score forces in the 6 infantry division, 5 inside the city of a

of cornell, yale medical school, she has served previously in governments as chief operating officer at the center for medicare and medicaid services and she has served with great distinction and public acclaim as the health secretary of the north carolina centers for, sorry, department of health and human services of north carolina. dr. cohen will make some remarks to kick us off, then we will have a chat, then we will turn matters over to the audience. dr. cohen with respect to the topics that may be raised, i remind you, this session is on the record. dr. cohen: good evening, everyone. thank you for hosting us. i wanted to acknowledge in the audience, my deputy of the cdc makes things work. and my 12-year-old daughter has been with me today. [applause] dr. cohen: she has seen a long day of talking that i do as cdc director. she has been amazing so thank you for coming to new york with me today. it is great to be here. i want to start with some framing remarks as to where cdc is. it is an important moment when we are having this conversation because i think folks have an image of what cdc is and does, probably seared in their memories from march of 2020. lots of folks first really got to know the cdc in